Satellite choice

FAMILY MOVIE

Secretariat, 12.10pm, Sky Disney ENJOYABLY mushy film-making from Disney’s true-life stable, telling the story of the recordbreaking racehorse of the title. It’s designed purely to provoke emotion — and the ploy works.

SUB-ZERO

Planet Ice, 2pm, 8pm, Eden A PARTLY subtitled new French series that takes a detailed look at glaciers around the world, starting with the Alps. The long perspective it provides is interesting — one expert claims that, in Roman times, Alpine glaciers were shorter than they are today — and the footage is frequently awe-inspiring.

RUGBY UNION

Montpellier v Bath,h, 7pm, BT Sport 2 LACKING a win so far in the European Rugby Champions Cup, Bath sit at the bottom of Pool Four. In their last outing, they lost 19-21 to Toulouse, with 14 of those 19 points coming from the boot of George Ford.

FOOTBALL

Fulham v Watford,, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 LIVE Championship action from Craven Cottage. Fulham struggled for points during the first weeks of the season, until ex-player Kit Symons was appointed caretaker manager; he was named full-time boss in October.

GREAT COMPOSER

Karajan’s Myth And Magic,agic, 7.30pm, BBC4 ENJOYABLE new profile of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, which explores not just his work — sometimes criticised for style over substance — but also a glamorous private life in which he flew jet aircraft, drove a Porsche, went mountainclimbing and deep-sea diving. A tough man to keep up with, in short.

INFECTIOUS BEATS

The Story Of Funk: One Nation Under A Groove, 9pm, BBC4 TTHE rise of funk in the U.S. — which led to hip-hop and dance music — is chronicled in this new documentary. There are colourful interviews with aacts such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Sly & The Family Stone and George Clinton (pictured), who co-wrote the song that makes up the second half of the title.

DOG COPS

Law On The Border, 10pm, Animal Planet LAUDATORY new series about the K-9 police unit in Nogales, Arizona, which guards the U.S./Mexico border against cartel smuggling operations. Here, officers John ‘Captain Chaos’ Zuniga and Chris ‘Patron’ Flores raid a stash house in search of drugs.

FILM DRAMA

Labor Day, 10pm, Sky Premiere KATE WINSLET is the troubled single mother succumbing to a serious case of Stockholm syndrome in Jason (Up In The Air) Reitman’s melodramatic take on Joyce Maynard’s novel. Josh Brolin (pictured with Winslet) is the escaped con who charms his way into her affections.

SITCOM REPEAT

Vicious, 11pm, ITV3 THIS theatrical six-part comedy was something of a love-it-or-hate-it affair, but for those who loved it, this is a welcome chance to see Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi again, playing the endlessly bickering Freddie and Stuart, with Frances de la Tour (pictured with McKellen and Jacobi) equally brilliant as their predatory friend, Violet. A second series is due next year.